Maulana Akonjee

Maulana Akonjee (1961-13 August 2016) was an American imam who was murdered in New York City on 13 August 2016 along with his assistant.

Biography
Maulana Akonjee was born in 1961 in Bangladesh to a Sunni Muslim family, and he later immigrated to the United States and became an imam. He had seven children, and he settled in New York City with his family. Akonjee became an imam at New York mosques as his career, and he became a community leader for the Bangladeshi-American community. On 13 August 2016, Akonjee and his assistant Thara Uddin were both murdered by a gunman as they left afternoon prayers at their mosque in Ozone Park, Queens. Their murders were believed to be the result of Islamophobia, a rising issue in America.